Extant Americana

05/06/2016

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Theodore ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) Fine content Autograph Letter Signed, "Theodore Roosevelt" 1 page, 165 x 128 mm (5 x 6 1/2 in.) [Columbus, Ohio], 30 September 1918, addressed in his hand on the accompanying transmittal envelope to "Miss Betty Trudeau" in Columbus. Matted and framed with a transcript…

05/05/2016

Extant Americana is pleased to offer a new selection of fine historical autographs, manuscripts & ephemera!

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Theodore Roosevelt writes a touching letter to an Ohio girl who had lost her cousin on the Western Front, only months after losing his own son Quentin over the skies of France, 1918.

11/22/2015

On this day in 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.

In "Dallas, November 22, 1963" Robert A. Caro explores that tragic day in Dallas alive with startling details reported for the first time by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Just as scandals that might end his career are about to break over Lyndon Johnson's head, the motorcade containing the presidential party is making its slow and triumphant way along the streets of Dallas. In Caro's breathtakingly vivid narrative, we witness the shots, the procession speeding to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the moment when Kennedy aide Lawrence O'Donnell tells Johnson "He's gone," and Johnson's iconic swearing in on Air Force One. This Vintage Shorts was excerpted from Caro's best-selling The Passage of Power. MORE here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/237013/dallas-november-22-1963/

08/13/2015

It's official!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/dna-is-said-to-solve-a-mystery-of-warren-hardings-love-life.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Genealogists say tests confirm for the first time that Nan Britton’s daughter was indeed Harding’s biological child, shedding new light on a Roaring Twenties scandal.

08/07/2015

Another new item we are offering is an imprint of a reproduction of Karl Marx’s petition to Abraham Lincoln on behalf of the International Working Men’s Party, composed in November 1864. The balance of the document concerns Marx’s December 1869 memorandum to English philosopher Robert Applegarth, advocating his reasons for the abolition of private property.

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08/05/2015

Among our new selections for August, we offer a scarce broadside advertising a “Mass Meeting” in Los Angeles of the Progressive Citizens of America, c. 1948, featuring party advocates John Garfield, Lena Horne, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Revere, George Coulouris, Richard Conte, Paul Henreid, Betty Garrett, Larry Parks, and Gene Kelly, whose outspoken opposition to the House of unAmerican Activities Committee contributed significantly to the end of the Hollywood blacklist.

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08/04/2015

We have just added some great new selections to our offerings of historical Americana, including several early California letters, a rare map of the Hudson River, a significant archive documenting the Mississippi Squadron during the Civil War, and much, much more!

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07/31/2015

07/29/2015

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-library-making-4000-ancient-manuscripts-available-online-free-photos-1470911

Vatican Apostolic Library seeks crowdfunding to digitally preserve 18,000 ancient manuscripts

07/28/2015

Scientists identify the remains of four English men who were among the early leaders of Virginia's Jamestown settlement - the first successful British colony.

07/24/2015

http://m.csmonitor.com/Technology/Horizons/2011/1107/Marie-Curie-Why-her-papers-are-still-radioactive?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

Marie Curie, whom Google is celebrating Monday with a Google Doodle in honor of her 144th birthday, lived her life awash in ionizing radiation. More than a century later, her papers are still radioactive.